Posted on: 08/10/2008
Access to Information, Basic Journalism, Networking, Safety
Region: Asia and the Pacific
Journalists can join a media trip to Laos, the country most affected by cluster bombs in the world, from October 19 to 21.
The Cluster Munition Coalition is organising the trip, which comes ahead of the signing of a groundbreaking treaty banning cluster bombs by over 100 governments in December.
The trip will include interviews with victims in and around their homes, access to hospitals, a prosthetic limb center, the chance to film/photograph clearance teams including a live demolition and a visit to The Plain of Jars, the heritage site denied to the world because of extensive cluster bomb contamination.
The final day of the trip will be at the South East Asia regional conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Journalists can join the trip at any point, but will be expected to cover their own flight and hotel costs.
For more information and the full schedule contact Natalie Curtis at Natalie@stopclustermunitions.org or go to http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/news/?id=787.
